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When people correct dictation errors by speaking again, the spoken correction is often misrecognized as well, which costs time.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“often spoken corrections are themselves misrecognized, costing the user time and testing their patience”
Speech and Speech Recognition during Dictation Corrections, Keith Vertanen, Interspeech 2006 (ICSLP), Pittsburgh, 2006, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- Users in a simulated dictation interface believed they were correcting errors by respeaking part of a sentence.
- What it does not show
- Based on a simulated interface and a 2006 recognizer. Rates of misrecognition depend on the engine, the speaker and the microphone.
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